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Computing Sciences Summer Student Program and Events

Computing Sciences hosts its own Summer Student Program with students from various universities in the United States and abroad. The program gives students an opportunity to gain relevant research experience while pursuing their degree. The students are partnering with one or more staff members on well-defined research projects. Many of their projects, which they develop at the Lab during the 12-week summer program, become the basis for their theses. At the end of the summer, the students will give presentations based on their research findings.

2009 Summer Students Program Coordinators

Marcia Ocon Leimer, Computing Sciences Human Resources, 510-495-2727, MOcon_Leimer@lbl.gov
Terry Ligocki, CRD, 510-486-6140, TJLigocki@lbl.gov

2009 Summer Students Events / Seminars

Summer Student Program Kick Off/Welcome
(pizza & refreshments will be available)
Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director
Tuesday, June 9, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 50A-5132

Oakland Scientific Facility (OSF) Tour
Howard Walter, NERSC Division Deputy
Thursday, June 18, 9:00 am, OSF

How Social Technology Is Changing Science
Cecilia Aragon, Staff Scientist, Advanced Computing for Science Dept.
Tuesday, June 23, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 50A-5132

The Art and Science of Scientific Visualization
Wes Bethel, Group Leader, Scientific Visualization Group
Thursday, July 9, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 70A-3377

Unit Origami
Terry Ligocki, Computer Systems Engineer, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group
Thursday, July 16, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 70A-3377

EcoScience in the Cloud, or Having Fun with Scientists
Catharine van Ingen, Microsoft Research
Thursday, July 23, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 50A-5132

Oculomotor Plant Biometrics: Person-Specific Features in Eye Movements
Ukwatta "Sam" Jayarathna, Texas State University-San Marcos
Thursday, July 30, 11:30 am–12:00 pm, 50A-5132

Unit Origami II
Terry Ligocki, Computer Systems Engineer, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group
Thursday, July 30, 12:00–1:00 pm, 50A-5132

Ten Ways to Waste a Supercomputer
Kathy Yelick, NERSC Director and Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Thursday, August 6, 11:30 am–1:00 pm, 50B-4205

Summer Student Presentations
Thursday, August 13, 10:00 am–2:00 pm, 70A-3377

10:00 am
Snacks and refreshments
10:05 am
Welcome and Introduction
10:15 am
Dany De Cecchis
Coupling High-Performance Multiresolution Computational Modeling for Earth-Sciences Application
10:30 am
Mehmet Balman
Advance Network Reservation and Provisioning for Science
10:45 am
Aparna Chandramowlishwaran
Optimizing the Fast Multipole Method on Emerging Multicore Platforms
11:00 am
David Batista
Embedded Boundary Method in Mapped Coordinates
11:15 am
Kevin Bauer
The Design and Implementation of an OpenID-Enabled PKI
11:30 am
Morning Q&A
11:45 am
Lunch: pizza and refreshments
12:15 pm
Sowmya Balasubramanian
ESnet Weathermap
12:30 pm
Jie Li
Construction of the MODIS Scientific Data Reprojection and Reduction Pipeline in Windows Azure
12:45 pm
Manav Vasavada
Implementing Incremental Checkpointing in Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart (BLCR)
1:00 pm
Promita Chakraborty
Performance Benchmarking of Bio-Codes on Multi-Core Architecture
1:15 pm
Jan Durand
Shibboleth Federation Technologies
1:30 pm
Afternoon Q&A
1:45 pm
Wrap up

 

2009 Summer Students

Name
Institution
LBNL Host
Project
Jacob Andreas Columbia University Deb Agarwal Collaboration with Cecilia Aragon on the PDG Workspace
Brad Applin Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Jon Bashor Working with Jon Bashor in the Communications Dept.
Sowmya Balasubramanian Carnegie Mellon University Chin Guok,
Michael Collins
OSCARS
Mehmet Balman Louisiana State University Arie Shoshani

Storage Research Management (SRM) and exploring network provisioning

Elbano David Batista San Diego University Phil Colella

ANAG Research Project (Diversity)

Kevin Bauer University of Colorado Stanley Kluz Explore “directed identity” in Shibboleth and OpenID
Mauro Calderara ETH Zurich Juan Meza Work on HTNlib with David Bailey
Promita Chakraborty Virginia Tech Jonathan Carter  
Cy Chan MIT John Shalf Developing framework for auto-tuning stencil kernels for PDE solvers on multicore processors and GPUs
Aparna Chandramowlishwaran Georgia Institute of Technology Erich Strohmaier

Multicore optimization of particle-in-cell computations

Dany De Cecchis San Diego State University Tony Drummond,
Esmond Ng
Development of purely distributed coupling tools to model multi-physics models
Jan Durand Grambling University Stanley Kluz Federation Technology Research and OpenID Pilot Service (Diversity)
Manisha Gajbe Georgia Institute of Technology John Shalf Escan and different parallelization and distribution of real space data
Robert Garcia Las Positas College Charlie Verboom  
Benjamin Hindman UC Berkeley John Shalf Continuing research on the FastOS Project
Aaron Hong UC Berkeley Brian Tierney  
Ukwatta "Sam" Jayarathna Texas State University, San Marcos Deb Agarwal Collaboration with Cecilia Aragon on “Oculomotor Plant Signature Modeling in Biometrics”
Bakytzhan Kallemov UC Davis Phil Colella Working on multiscale math project developing hybrid fliud-particle code
Kevin Klues UC Berkeley John Shalf Continuing research on the FastOS Project
Jens Krueger TU Kaiserslautern Erich Strohmaier Research on the auto-parallelizing and auto-tuning framework for multicore stencil computation
Jessamyn Lett UC Davis    
Justin Leung Cal State East Bay Jeff Willer  
Jie Li   Deb Agarwal Collaboration with Deb Agarwal and Catharine Van Ingen on several projects
Lin Lin Princeton University Esmond Ng Kohn-Sham map and convergence of the self consistent field (SCF) iteration
Eric Liu MIT Phil Colella Working on a new class of 4th order methods for C-laws in problems featuring strong shocks (DOE CSGF program)
Kaustubh Prahbu North Carolina State University Mike Collins Iperf Program
Barret Rhoden UC Berkeley John Shalf Continuing research on the FastOS Project
Kai Song UC Berkeley Gary Jung  
Manav Vasavada North Carolina State University Erich Strohmaier

FTG on the BLCR software

Andrew Wang University of California, Berkeley Mike Collins

Web interface to the lab’s network statistics system

Nelda Woodbury   Charlie Verboom  
Mark Woods Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Juan Meza Work on a project to develop improved support vendor machines for large-scale data sets
Yu Zhu UC Berkeley John Shalf Continuing research on the FastOS Project

 

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